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  • 'Utter infatuation.'†   (source)
  • It was on the second album, and it was the only slow song they ever did; it sounded almost country, probably from Henry's brief infatuation with hillbilly punk.†   (source)
  • When I write about her now, three decades later, it's tempting to dismiss it as a crush, an infatuation of childhood, but I know for a fact that what we felt for each other was as deep and rich as love can ever get.†   (source)
  • Fingers and strings made a careful conversation, as if their dance described the lines of an infatuation.†   (source)
  • And then it occurred to me that if a geisha or a young apprentice grew teary-eyed in front of a man, wouldn't most anyone take it for infatuation?†   (source)
  • In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs.†   (source)
  • Over the years, some of my sophisticated academic colleagues have turned up their noses at my Star Trek infatuation.†   (source)
  • He smiles at the mere mention of her name, but Robinson and I begin to worry that his infatuation has become an obsession, and that he'll end up with a broken heart.†   (source)
  • Emeline was infatuated with Holmes.†   (source)
  • But infatuated with the Spiritualists, as are many these days.†   (source)
  • Everything was done for the season, the ball of string was neatly wrapped up until next May 12 — not a day earlier or later — and Ullman, who was responsible for all of it and who referred to the hotel in the unmistakable tones of infatuation, could not help looking for loose ends.†   (source)
  • He bent closer to her, musing, infatuated with her, but struggling.†   (source)
  • But aren't you going to say that I sound exactly like every other infatuated teenager since the dawn of time?†   (source)
  • With absurd intensity he hoped against hope that his niece's infatuation would prove to be a passing fancy, because deep down he could not accept that she should need another man more than she needed him.†   (source)
  • To took through the inventory of Airwalk ads in that critical period, in fact, is to get a complete guide to the fads and infatuations and interests of the youth culture of the era: there are 30-second spoofs of kung fu movies, a TV spot on Beat poetry, an X-files-style commercial in which a young man driving into Roswell, New Mexico, has his Airwalks confiscated by aliens.†   (source)
  • Oh, hi, I'm infatuated with a mysterious man who sends messages in bottles, and I'm wondering if the letter that you found was written by him as well...He answered slowly.†   (source)
  • The religious infatuation of a teenager?†   (source)
  • Because it revealed the depth of your infatuation.†   (source)
  • Buddy wrote that he was probably falling in love with a nurse who also had TB, but his mother had rented a cottage in the Adirondacks for the month of July, and if I came along with her, he might well find his feeling for the nurse was a mere infatuation.†   (source)
  • Still, just in case, I never dared mention sex, interrupted by periods' Lince, interrupted by drugs' or my own infatuation with the monster's spectacular rock and roll.†   (source)
  • "For a child growing up in the turmoil of [postwar] Berlin ...the Americans were angels," Christa Maerker, a Berlin filmmaker, wrote in an essay on postwar Germany's infatuation with the United States.†   (source)
  • I'd known about John Miller's infatuation with Scarlett back when it was just curious interest, then watched-along with the rest of the employees at various Mayor's Village businesses-as it progressed to puppy-dog-esque devotion before finally reaching the ridiculous level of romantic pining that was its current state.†   (source)
  • She could chide herself for her silly infatuation with a dullard.†   (source)
  • Okay, there's no need to forever make fun of my unfortunate ex-infatuation with Leonardo.†   (source)
  • Much of the lead from the rest of the statue would later be, as reported, melted down for bullets "to assimilate with the brains of our infatuated adversaries."†   (source)
  • Specks and glints, ragtails of color appeared in the stratified mass of covering soil, fabric scraps from the garment center, stirred by the wind, or maybe that teal thing is a bikini brief that belonged to a secretary from Queens, and Brian found he could create a flash infatuation, she is dark-eyed and reads the tabloids and paints her nails and eats lunch out of molded styrofoam, and he gives her gifts and she gives him condoms, and it all ends up here, newsprint, emery boards, sexy underwear, coaxed into high relief by the rumbling dozers—think of his multitudinous spermlings with their history of high family fore-heads†   (source)
  • She seemed infatuated with Aarfy, but he prayed intensely for her luscious aunt as he ran, or for a luscious girl friend, sister, cousin, or mother who was just as libidinous and depraved.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I feel so wounded by Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa.†   (source)
  • I liked to play in the graveyard after service; I liked my parents' pre —and post-commentary in the car; I liked being doted on by parishioners; and I loved, absolutely was infatuated with, Myra Narbonne.†   (source)
  • She was the daughter of a wealthy but ill-connected family, a vapid beauty whose looks had stirred a brief infatuation in the colonel that lasted just until he pocketed her marriage portion.†   (source)
  • I shrugged, but she missed it, too infatuated with my sketchbook.†   (source)
  • I've come to learn that there's real value in that—a value greater than any infatuation.†   (source)
  • He wasn't a schoolboy tossed about by infatuation.†   (source)
  • He wasn't infatuated with Hazel anymore.†   (source)
  • Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special.†   (source)
  • Alessandro's infatuation with Janet was overwhelmed by the imperative of the guns, for they were deeper even than thunder.†   (source)
  • From then on, Oscar was infatuated with Jack in the Box.†   (source)
  • The actor-addict became aware of his companion's infatuation, and he, too, began to stare at the man with the melancholy eyes—though he was glaring rather than flirting.†   (source)
  • Laughter bubbled up from somewhere deep inside her, that sort of laughter that came with the giddiness of infatuation.†   (source)
  • This is the second remarkable coincidence linking Robert Todd Lincoln to John Wilkes Booth, the first being his infatuation with Lucy Hale, Booth's fiancee.†   (source)
  • I felt like a boy talking to his first infatuation.†   (source)
  • And maybe it was lame to be so infatuated with a piece of artwork that was so popular, but I didn't care.†   (source)
  • Make it look like an infatuation, perhaps.†   (source)
  • My infatuation with the study of animate nature grew rapidly into a full-fledged love affair.†   (source)
  • During those first weeks I managed fairly successfully to bury my infatuation for Sophie.†   (source)
  • Until the day we go to Heaven, there is only childish infatuation and jealousy, duty, despair.†   (source)
  • Matter of self-preservation, not infatuation.†   (source)
  • But this mischievous, girlish infatuation was short-lived.†   (source)
  • Josie said you were INFATUATED with her.   (source)
  • Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a smile which exalted that infatuated youth straightway into the seventh heaven of delight and caused him to make such fearful errors in his dictation that Mr. Phillips kept him in after school to rewrite it.   (source)
  • Whatever was happening with us, it was more than just an infatuation.†   (source)
  • Rather, I went to prove to myself that it had been nothing more than a momentary infatuation.†   (source)
  • It was time to end her little infatuation with Mike once and for all.†   (source)
  • He was handsome, much infatuated with his own opinions, and an honest man, Adams believed.†   (source)
  • You do know Wes has been infatuated with you since he first got here, right?†   (source)
  • And I wasn't quite ready to admit my budding infatuation.†   (source)
  • The people were infatuated with Buttercup now as they had never been before her kidnapping.†   (source)
  • And we'll just chalk up this infatuation with Mike as a mistake, okay?†   (source)
  • If not in love, Jefferson was wholly infatuated.†   (source)
  • It's not always on the part of the vamp, but humans become infatuated pretty easily.†   (source)
  • All of us had one thing in common: a total infatuation with the monster.†   (source)
  • They'll drown you for this misguided, adolescent infatuation with a man who could never love you.†   (source)
  • Actually, it's kinda like my unfortunate ex-infatuation with you.†   (source)
  • He, Galiullin, and I. As a little boy he was infatuated with me.†   (source)
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  • I don't think mating and infatuation and friendships and closeness would occur if our faces didn't work that way.†   (source)
  • It was difficult for her to recognize in this sweet infatuated young man, who could laugh and romp in an endless bacchanal, the eager revolutionary so committed to the idea of justice that he took secret courses in the use of firearms and revolutionary strategy.†   (source)
  • He despised Malfoy still for his infatuation with the Dark Arts, but now the tiniest drop of pity mingled with his dislike.†   (source)
  • Yet she became infatuated with the magic Dan wrought upon the amateurs at The Gravesend Players, so much so that she accepted a part in Maugham's The Constant Wife; she was the regal mother of the deceived wife, and she proved to have the perfect, frivolous touch for drawing-room comedy—she was a model of the kind of sophistication we could all do well without.†   (source)
  • I have no idea how he does it, but I've completely forgiven him, have become infatuated with him, and now I can't stop kissing him, all in the span of fifteen minutes.†   (source)
  • Occasionally one of her infatuations would culminate in a lunch or coffee date, an encounter on which she would pin all her hopes but which would lead to nothing.†   (source)
  • It was beautifully evocative, beginning with an expectant swell that suddenly pauses early in the first movement, like an infatuated suitor who stops just short of saying too much.†   (source)
  • After a childhood in Kobe, Mutsuhiro attended Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University, where he studied French literature and cultivated an infatuation with nihilism.†   (source)
  • Mary Beth Baird wanted to hold a part of him, too; whether his goosing her had deepened her infatuation, or had put her in her place without trampling an iota of her ardor, is uncertain—regardless, she was his slave, at his command.†   (source)
  • For students the age of my Bishop Strachan girls to spend seven weeks of the summer memorizing The Medea and The Trojan Women must have been an exercise in tedium—and one that risked disabusing the youngsters of their infatuation with the stage.†   (source)
  • The initial infatuation he'd felt when meeting Missy the first time—the desperate adolescent desire to learn everything he could about her—had been replaced with something deeper and more mature over the years.†   (source)
  • He hadn't been her husband or fiancé; calling him a boyfriend made it sound as if he were a teenage infatuation; lover captured only a small part of what they had shared.†   (source)
  • He nodded, and as she watched him walk away, she recalled that before she'd loved him, she'd been infatuated with him.†   (source)
  • We were infatuated with people like Merman, Truman Capote, Odetta, Bette Midler, and the producer Alan Carr, who appeared on Merv in large, brightly colored muumuus, and who made Merv laugh in a way that other guests didn't.†   (source)
  • He hated neither Italy, swords, horses, nor encyclopedias, and he didn't see the war in Libya as the logical result of but, rather, as a deviation from the way things were, and yet he received entreaties from strange Italians infatuated with the Turkish Empire.†   (source)
  • He wasn't infatuated with her, but instead he loved her so quietly that he thought he would soon forget her, although when he considered the prospect of forgetting her his love for her grew, and this made him remember that heavy blizzards start as gentle and persistent snow.†   (source)
  • When I saw your face behind the mask on the ravine floor, I thought I loved you, but that was again nothing more than deep infatuation.†   (source)
  • Alessandro let his infatuation for her become respect for her husband, although he could only guess that Arturo merited it.†   (source)
  • He was not a great man, as he would have had to have been to proceed in his infatuation without flagellating himself.†   (source)
  • Knowing all too well the deeply religious love of the Italian poets for women they had merely seen on the street, he feared that his infatuation for Lia could never be compared to the elemental union that can occur between men and women when God is present and light surrounds them.†   (source)
  • I suppose the fact of the matter is that deep down I so hungered for friendship—was so infatuated with Sophie, and attracted with such perverse fascination to this dynamic, vaguely outlandish; wickedly compelling young man who was her inamorato—that I dared not regard their relationship in anything but the rosiest light.†   (source)
  • Laying his ears back until they were flush with his broad skull, he began to wiggle like a pup while at the same time wrinkling his lips in a frightful grimace which may have been intended to register infatuation, but which looked to me more like a symptom of senile decay.†   (source)
  • When the honeymoon's over, the first storm of infatuation, his potency depends heavily on his feeling of at least equality with his partner—among other things.†   (source)
  • It appears that while Mother was still alive, Father became infatuated with a certain eccentric Princess Stolbunova-Enrici.†   (source)
  • Her name was Maria (rhyming in the Southern fashion with "pariah") Hunt, and at fifteen I had been so feverish in my infatuation for her that it seems in retrospect a small-scale madness.†   (source)
  • His mother was a Georgian princess of the Eristov family, a spoiled and beautiful woman, still young and always infatuated with one thing or another-rebellions, rebels, extremist theories, famous actors, unhappy failures.†   (source)
  • Once that summer in Brooklyn, I pressed upon Sophie a volume of H. L. Mencken, who was then, as now, one of my infatuations, and I observe for what it is worth that she remarked that Mencken's scathing style reminded her of her father's.†   (source)
  • Not only did he forgive him his lack of manners, which he regarded as the expressions of a genuinely revolutionary temperament, but he delighted in his insolence as an infatuated woman may be pleased by the arrogant ways of a masterful lover.†   (source)
  • The prodigious subterranean castle of salt which she has visited often and which may or may not be, as the Professor claims, one of Europe's seven man-made wonders, is less an anticlimax in itself than a spectacle which simply fails to register on her awareness, so agitated has she been made by this indefinable whatever-it-is—this infatuation—which has struck her with the random heat of a lightning bolt, making her weak and a little ill.†   (source)
  • She found herself both warmed and distressed by this callow, transfixed infatuation and could really respond only to the poetry, for besides being, at twenty or so, at least ten years younger than she was, he was also physically unappealing—that is, enormously overweight aside from his grotesquely disoriented eyes.†   (source)
  • 'I suppose we can accept the girl's rather extraordinary story of her aunt's infatuation?†   (source)
  • The infatuated young woman conducted Jason to the oak from which hung the Fleece.†   (source)
  • Auntie was absolutely infatuated with Jacob.†   (source)
  • During the first weeks of Lancelot's infatuation for Guenever, it became time for Arthur to cross the Channel to meet his enemy in France—and it was on this war that he decided to carry the young man with him.†   (source)
  • And it wasn't puppy love or infatuation or love at first sight or anything that people always talk about and laugh.†   (source)
  • If she had ever had him at her mercy, seen him grown passionate, importunate, jealous, sulky, pleading, like the other boys, the wild infatuation which had possessed her would have passed, blowing away as lightly as mist before sunshine and light wind when she met a new man.†   (source)
  • In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers.†   (source)
  • His tongue hung out with the heat of work and infatuation; and there was a bottom ground where he was angry, his anger rising straight into his face in two flaming centers, under his eyes, on either side of his nose.†   (source)
  • In the second place any sexual infatuation whatever, so long as it intends marriage, will be regarded as "love", and "love" will be held to excuse a man from all the guilt, and to protect him from all the consequences, if marrying a heathen, a fool, or a wanton.†   (source)
  • He said, 'Good-bye, my dear,' and clumsily kissed her — a silly infatuated ageing man, who as soon as he released her and started padding back to the plaza could feel behind his hunched shoulders the whole Vile world coming round the child to ruin her.†   (source)
  • Goethe pronounced Shakespeare a great poet, whereupon all the other critics flocked after him like a troop of parrots, and the general infatuation has lasted ever since.†   (source)
  • Manifestly they were aware of Mrs. Bland's infatuation.†   (source)
  • You're terribly infatuated, don't try to deny it.†   (source)
  • How good of you to wait in the rain all this time—to gratify my infatuation!†   (source)
  • I hope you will get over your infatuation for me.†   (source)
  • A father's love for a grown-up daughter is the most dangerous of all infatuations.†   (source)
  • Freddy bows and sits down in the Elizabethan chair, infatuated.†   (source)
  • The persistence of the infatuation lent it an aspect of genuineness.†   (source)
  • That he had become infatuated with her Joan could no longer doubt.†   (source)
  • I was lifted aloft on a great wave of infatuation and pity.†   (source)
  • Everyone who heard of his infatuation for the school teacher was sure it would turn out badly.†   (source)
  • As infatuated as you undeniably are, you must surely know her first name.†   (source)
  • She was still under the spell of her infatuation.†   (source)
  • Well, when you found you were so infatuated with this Miss X, what did you do?†   (source)
  • Why, cannot you see that they are all infatuated with pride and vanity?†   (source)
  • In short, you want me to be as infatuated about you as Freddy?†   (source)
  • This was less an infatuation than a romantic memory.†   (source)
  • It's not worth while sacrificing everything for an infatuation that you know can't last.†   (source)
  • I also had my moments of infatuation in which I gushed nonsense and believed it.†   (source)
  • Call it madness if you will—infatuation.†   (source)
  • He was too infatuated with, and hence disarranged by his thoughts of Sondra.†   (source)
  • Hector knows it; and yet he persists in his infatuation.†   (source)
  • Yet at the same time her eyes conveying the infatuation that now dominated her.†   (source)
  • No, Viv: your infatuated little boy will have to stick to you in any case.†   (source)
  • What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that?†   (source)
  • How could she allow herself to become so infatuated with a stranger?†   (source)
  • 'No, you have not,' said the infatuated girl.†   (source)
  • His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations.†   (source)
  • Black Sambo, with the infatuation of his profession, determined on setting up a public-house.†   (source)
  • Razumihin, of course, was ridiculous in his sudden drunken infatuation for Avdotya Romanovna.†   (source)
  • Is there nothing left, to which I can appeal against this terrible infatuation!'†   (source)
  • That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation.†   (source)
  • I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.†   (source)
  • Emma, your infatuation about that girl blinds you.†   (source)
  • I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.†   (source)
  • Troy paused in secret amazement at Boldwood's wild infatuation.†   (source)
  • He assured me that his passion for you was a passing infatuation, now he has no feeling for you.†   (source)
  • Even in the midst of his late infatuation, he had acknowledged Fanny's mental superiority.†   (source)
  • Tom is this old man's angel; he is infatuated with him.†   (source)
  • 'Very strange how these runs on an infatuation prevail,' said Arthur.†   (source)
  • He might not be able to overcome that infatuation, even knowing what we know.†   (source)
  • I am not his doll—his baby—his infatuation: his nature is.†   (source)
  • Sir Leicester is devoted to you almost to infatuation.†   (source)
  • I guess she had so long since given up any idea of getting her man back that it was enough for her to have got the girl out of the house and well cured of her infatuation.†   (source)
  • It is some silly infatuation.†   (source)
  • The neat little system which he had formed as the result of his meditations at Blackstable had not been of conspicuous use during his infatuation for Mildred.†   (source)
  • On the shipbuilder's part, this marriage was an infatuation, the despairing folly of a powerful man who cannot bear to grow old.†   (source)
  • The whole story smells of passion, and we all know what this class of gentry is capable of when infatuated.†   (source)
  • She spoke it earnestly, eloquently, and for once she had no sly little intonation or pert allurement, such as was her wont to use on this infatuated young man.†   (source)
  • She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his affection itself was less fire than radiance, and, with regard to the other sex, when he ceased to believe he ceased to follow: contrasting in this with many impressionable natures, who remain sensuously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.†   (source)
  • And so infatuated was Clyde by this picture of herself and the wonderful Keary that he accepted all of her petty fabrications as truth.†   (source)
  • Between ourselves there are pretty clear signs that this will not be wanting if the lady is willing, for I have seldom seen a man more infatuated with a woman than he is with our beautiful neighbour, Miss Stapleton.†   (source)
  • He ceased to be irritated by Ted's infatuation with a waitress (his seventh tragic affair this year); he played catch with Ted, and with pride taught him to cast a fly in the pine-shadowed silence of Skowtuit Pond.†   (source)
  • But if Selden's infatuation seemed a fatal necessity, the effect that his name produced shook Gerty's steadfastness with a last pang.†   (source)
  • When she returned to her duties in Boston, Howard followed her, and the upshot of this inexplicable infatuation was that she eloped with him, eluding the reproaches of her family and the criticisms of her friends by going with him to the Nebraska frontier.†   (source)
  • She wanted to be taken and she was, and what had begun with a childish infatuation on a beach was accomplished at last.†   (source)
  • In real life we find not only Petruchios, but Mantalinis and Dobbins who pursue women with appeals to their pity or jealousy or vanity, or cling to them in a romantically infatuated way.†   (source)
  • It was ridiculous to be flying like an emotional coward from an infatuation his reason had conquered.†   (source)
  • But I was infatuated—I was blind with victory, though even then the very effect that was to have brought him so much nearer was already that of added separation.†   (source)
  • The full recognition of the futility of their infatuation, from a social point of view; its purposeless beginning; its self-bounded outlook; its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization (while lacking nothing in the eye of Nature); the one fact that it did exist, ecstasizing them to a killing joy—all this imparted to them a resignation, a dignity, which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed.†   (source)
  • In a word, there was a great deal to say; but Mrs. Epanchin, and her daughters, and even Prince S., were still so much distressed by Aglaya's latest infatuations and adventures, that they did hot care to talk of them, though they must have known that Evgenie knew much of the story already.†   (source)
  • It was Bertha whose confidence she sought, and who should as eagerly have invited her own; and Bertha, as if in the infatuation of self-destruction, was actually pushing away her rescuing hand.†   (source)
  • The song meant a great deal to him, a whole world— a world that he evidently must have loved, or otherwise he would not have been so infatuated with the image that represented it.†   (source)
  • For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.†   (source)
  • The very scrupulousness with which he told her that day that he had become used to having her there, and dependent on her for all sorts of little services, and that he should miss her if she went away (it would never have occurred to Freddy or the Colonel to say anything of the sort) deepens her inner certainty that she is "no more to him than them slippers", yet she has a sense, too, that his indifference is deeper than the infatuation of commoner souls.†   (source)
  • Amneris fervently strives to convince the tenor to renounce his slave girl, tells him it will cost him his life, but in response to her desperate pleas, the tragically infatuated tenor, having already turned his back on life, can only reply: "I cannot!" and "In vain!"†   (source)
  • Lebedeff then, in tragic tones, told of the approaching marriage, whereupon the other nodded his head and replied that, after all, marriages like that were not so rare; that he had heard that the lady was very fascinating and of extraordinary beauty, which was enough to explain the infatuation of a wealthy man; that, further, thanks to the liberality of Totski and of Rogojin, she possessed—so he had heard—not only money, but pearls, diamonds, shawls, and furniture, and consequently she could not be considered a bad match.†   (source)
  • It came to the point where people literally gathered to watch the infatuated young man—on the terrace after dinner or on Sunday afternoon when all the guests thronged the concierge's desk to pick up their mail, which on that one day was not delivered to their rooms.†   (source)
  • Indeed so infatuated was he with her ways and airs, that instead of being irritated by her pretended indifference, he was all the more attracted.†   (source)
  • That is just why I turned my back on the romantic man with the artist nature, as he called his infatuation.†   (source)
  • To put it simply, our traveler had fallen head over heels in love with Clavdia Chauchat—we use the term "love," whereas we have thus far spoken of infatuation, because we believe we have taken sufficient precautions to prevent any misunderstandings its use might cause.†   (source)
  • I had been prepared for infatuation, for intoxication, for all the illusions of love's young dream; and lo!†   (source)
  • And so distrait was she, and still so infatuated with him, that she could not resist admitting that she wanted him to come.†   (source)
  • It should also be noted that Hans Castorp's innermost relationship to this patient from the Good Russian table, the interest his modest intellect and his senses now took in this Kirghiz-eyed, softly slinking woman of average stature—in brief, his infatuation (and the word is apt, even though it is a word from "down below," a word of the plains, and might imply that the little song about "how oft it thrills me" was somehow applicable here)—his infatuation, then, had made considerable progress during his isolation.†   (source)
  • And if she erred as to him—as plainly she did—might not—might not he have erred eventually in his infatuated following of one who in the ultimate—who can say?†   (source)
  • She was really a little silly, very lightheaded, who was infatuated by her own charms and looked in every mirror, admiring her eyes, her hair, her neck, her hands, her figure, and practising a peculiarly fetching smile.†   (source)
  • It was all in Italian, but he understood more or less what they sang—not every word, but enough here and there, given his knowledge of the plot and his sympathy for its situations, a personal empathy that had increased each time he played the four or five records, until it now became a genuine infatuation.†   (source)
  • On sight, and because of the witchery of a smile, the magic and vigor of motion and youth, he was completely infatuated and would have given or done anything for an additional smile or glance or hand pressure.†   (source)
  • Also, it must be said on his behalf now, must it not—that never, under any other circumstances, would he have succumbed to any such terrible thought or plot as that—to kill any one—let alone a girl like Roberta—unless he had been so infatuated—lunatic, even.†   (source)
  • And since this occurred on a Saturday afternoon, Clyde, dressed in his best, yet decidedly wishing to obscure himself as an ordinary spectator, was able to see once more the girl who had so infatuated him on sight, obviously breasting a white rose-surfaced stream and guiding her craft with a paddle covered with yellow daffodils—a floral representation of some Indian legend in connection with the Mohawk River.†   (source)
  • And from there, by the same meticulous process, he proceeded to Clyde—his interest in the affairs of Lycurgus society and the rich and beautiful Miss X, who because of a purely innocent and kindly, if infatuated, indication on her part that he might hope to aspire to her hand—had unwittingly evoked in him a passion which had been the cause of the sudden change in his attitude and emotions toward Roberta, resulting, as Mason insisted he would show, in the plot that had resulted in Roberta's death.†   (source)
  • She merely looked at him dubiously, wondering what could be the result of such an infatuation as this.†   (source)
  • So much so that even marriage, assuming that her family might not prove too inimical and that her infatuation and diplomacy endured, might not be beyond the bounds of possibility.†   (source)
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